IDIOMS AND PHRASES

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To have brush with

• (a) To start painting
• (b) To have good and pleasing terms
• (c) To be impressed
• (d) To have a slight encounter

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To lose face

• (a) To look angry
• (b) To be humiliated
• (c) To be helpless
• (d) To look vacant

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To turn the other cheek

• (a) To sulk and suffer
• (b) To respond to violence with violence
• (c) To respond to violence with non- violence
• (d) To be indifferent to peace overtures

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To pull one’s socks up

• (a) To prepare
• (b) To try hard!
• (c) To get ready
• (d) To depart

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To bite one’s lips

• (a) To be angry
• (b) To feel sorry
• (c) To have doubt
• (d) To laugh at others

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Within An Ace of

• (a) Within one’s reach
• (b) Very near
• (c) Within the hitting range
• (d) Narrowly

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: Dog in the manger

• (a) An undersized bull almost the shape of a dog
• (b) A dog that has no kennel of its own
• (c) A person who puts himself in difficulties on account of other people
• (d) A person who prevents others from enjoying something useless to himself

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To blow hot and cold

• (a) Changing weather
• (b) To be untrustworthy
• (c) To be inconsistent
• (d) To be rich and poor frequently

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To set the people by ears

• (a) To box the people
• (b) To insult and disgrace the people
• (c) To punish heavily
• (d) To excite people to a quarrel

Tick the most appropriate meaning for the Idiom: To give chapter and verse for a thing

• (a) To produce the proof of something
• (b) To eulogize the qualities of a thing
• (c) To make publicity of a thing
• (d) To attach artificial value to a thing